Elroy November 18th, 2020, late afternoon

This short film was made to celebrate the creation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - and to look ahead at then, freshly unveiled plans for the area's future development. I was contacted in mid-September 2015 by Flying Object. They needed the film for early November, so it was all very quick and intense. In the end, we had the chance to tweak the film - after the early November deadline, before it was posted on Youtube in mid-November (10 days later). It was a pleasure to visit the Park and subsequently negotiate the film's structure. Even more amusing, was the fact that in the storyboard I proposed, I remember trying to refer to Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis Hill - obliquely (to not say "these are..."), and then the Park explicitly said "Yes, we want these Olympians" - by name. So, apologies to the all of the real individuals 'questionably reproduced', in the course of the film.

On the Pasticherie Facebook page, I've cited the use of the term "Olympicopolis" - towards the film's close (and I feel obliged to repeat the same point, now), as an indicator of the period/era in which the film was made (Boris Johnson was Mayor at the time).

I must also thank Spider Eye Ltd, for colouring the paper drawings so speedily, Cranrust VFX for supplying the facility to put the film together (and for helping/setting up the composite), Zoe Matzko for all of her help - including animating some brilliant work for the final giant pull-out shot at the end: which was never used - and Alex Zepherin, for her brilliant compositing work.